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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning have enabled people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Lucia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these exciting new open education ventures. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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